{"id":9377,"date":"2015-09-25T12:24:17","date_gmt":"2015-09-25T16:24:17","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/phillyhistory.wpengine.com\/?p=9377"},"modified":"2015-09-25T23:07:03","modified_gmt":"2015-09-26T03:07:03","slug":"pope-john-paul-ii-visits-philadelphia","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/blog.phillyhistory.org\/index.php\/2015\/09\/pope-john-paul-ii-visits-philadelphia\/","title":{"rendered":"Pope John Paul II Visits Philadelphia"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>Just about everyone knows that Pope Francis is scheduled to visit our area this weekend on Saturday\u00a0September 26th- Sunday September 27th. Security will be tight, <a href=\"http:\/\/philadelphia.cbslocal.com\/2015\/08\/05\/officials-announce-major-roads-ben-franklin-bridge-to-be-closed-weekend-of-papal-visit\/\">bridges will be closed<\/a>, as will major highways and public transportation via SEPTA will be severely limited as well. Though it will be a major inconvenience for many Philadelphians who live and\/or work in the affected area, it is expected to bring in millions of visitors to the city. This isn&#8217;t the first time that a Pope has visited us, though. Back in 1979, Pope John Paul II came here right after he was inaugurated.<\/p>\n<p>This was <a href=\"http:\/\/www.philly.com\/philly\/news\/pope\/The_last_papal_visit_to_Philadelphia_John_Paul_II_in_1979.html\">a much quicker visit<\/a> than what is being planned for Pope Francis next month, though. He arrived mid-day on October 3, 1979 and left at 11 AM the next morning for Des Moines, IA. During the time that he was here, he visited two churches and led a mass at the old Civic Center site and the day before, he led a large mass that attracted 1.5 to 2 million visitors at Logan Circle.<\/p>\n<p><a href=\"https:\/\/phillyhistory.wpengine.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2015\/08\/pope1.jpg\"><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" class=\"alignnone size-full wp-image-9380\" alt=\"pope1\" src=\"https:\/\/phillyhistory.wpengine.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2015\/08\/pope1.jpg\" width=\"600\" height=\"445\" srcset=\"https:\/\/blog.phillyhistory.org\/wp-content\/uploads\/2015\/08\/pope1.jpg 600w, https:\/\/blog.phillyhistory.org\/wp-content\/uploads\/2015\/08\/pope1-300x222.jpg 300w\" sizes=\"auto, (max-width: 600px) 100vw, 600px\" \/><\/a><\/p>\n<p>&nbsp;<\/p>\n<p>&nbsp;<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Just about everyone knows that Pope Francis is scheduled to visit our area this weekend on Saturday\u00a0September 26th- Sunday September 27th. Security will be tight, bridges will be closed, as will major highways and public transportation via SEPTA will be severely limited as well. Though it will be a major inconvenience for many Philadelphians who [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":28,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[8,30],"tags":[77,76,78,75],"class_list":["post-9377","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-events-and-people","category-snapshots-of-history","tag-papal-visits","tag-philadelphia","tag-pope-francis","tag-pope-john-paul-ii"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/blog.phillyhistory.org\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/9377","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/blog.phillyhistory.org\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/blog.phillyhistory.org\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/blog.phillyhistory.org\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/28"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/blog.phillyhistory.org\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=9377"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/blog.phillyhistory.org\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/9377\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/blog.phillyhistory.org\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=9377"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/blog.phillyhistory.org\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=9377"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/blog.phillyhistory.org\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=9377"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}